Oh my friend, it happens. It happens. I saw a wound one time...it wasn't the sight that bothered me so much as the smell. It was only my second semester of nursing. He smelled like a moldy side of old meat. The wound nurse and my instructor were ...
Forgive me - I did not mean to imply that ALL nurses who were not factory workers would say this, think this, or roll their eyes. I meant that those who worked in the factories would empathize with this much easier and would be more likely to underst...
As an addendum: I will always be a registered nurse, but the legacy of being a blue collar worker with ink and paper cuts all over my hands, that will be part of my soul forever. The day Brown Printing shuts down, it'll be the equivalent of betheleh...
Absolutely don't sweat it. Every nurse gets grossed out by something in the beginning, be it blood, guts, smells, sights, sounds...I almost passed out one day smelling a wound that smelled like a moldy side of old meat, and I actually LOVE blood. A...
I worked at Brown Printing in East Greenville, PA; making magazines such as Time, SI, Entertainment weekly, Family Circle. I worked there right out of high school. I loved my job there. To this day I am proud to say that I worked there and I miss ...
According to the Nurse practice Act of the state of Pennsylvania: In the acute care setting, the nurse-patient relationship ends at discharge. In the psychiatric settting (any setting psychiatric, I imagine), the nurse-patient relationship ends 3 yea...
Aoretta replied to Hopefull nurse's topic in Louisiana
This is my take on it. I've worked with many LPN's and they are just as experienced, hardworking, intelligent, and CULPABLE as RN's are. It is true that many places, especially hospitals, are phasing LPNs out. here at Reading Hospital they are doin...